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by rmc 8y ago
Public libraries themselves are relatively radical anyway. And librarians have often been defending free speech w.r.t. books being banned, and privacy of who read what.
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The name literally comes from the Irish work for "to play" (súgradh)
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They certainly would have a lot of influence within the OSM US org, and amoung US companies who do OSM stuff. But the OSM community isn't as big in the US (per capita, or in raw numbers) compared to other countries.
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> If OSM is important to you, there’s an open executive position advertised on the last HN Who’s Hiring post. That position is only for the "OpenStreetMap US" local chapter, not OSM globally. OSM is quite large outside the US
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> Would it be possible for OSM to provide these services at cost to fund their operations? "Real time data" means things like "current traffic data", right? That takes a lot of data collectors, and the data gets s
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I'm curious how they use OSM. If they mix the OSM data with other data, then OSM's GPL-like 'share alike' licence clause kicks in.... > They use OSM (and about 300 other sources). On a map, click on the "legal&q
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There'll be a link to framagit.org. Links from other parts of the web. When someone blogs about your software, it'll be a link to that URL etc
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What's quite funny is that "closed shop" (where all employees must be part of a trade union) is against the European Convention of Human Rights. You have a right to join a trade union, and hence a right not to. And the EU con
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> it prevents software from being used by companies To me, that's a benefit :)
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This is where the GDPR helps. It means personal data is much harder to monitize. and means you're allowed download all your data.
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All your links will point to gitlab.com, you'll have top change everything again. The problem is centralization.
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The temperature of your house at certain times can be used to figure out when you were at home, what rooms you were in, when you went to bed, if you're just at home alone, or someone else was at home when you were there too. Sounds lik
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No, GDPR only applies if (i) you're in the EU or (ii) the org with the personal data is in the EU. (i) might be enforible against a US corp if they have something in the EU to do business
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You don't need to sue in court, you can make a complaint to a covering Data Protection Agency. i.e. where the corporation's office is. They are supposed to take care of it, and they will have the power to force the local company t
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yes European Union
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"you have control over ... how you share it". You do not have control over how Facebook shares it.
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In order to use this, you no longer need to go via the regular internet, and use an exit node. Many people don't like running exit nodes, but would run a relay nodew.
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Include Google: https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#bann...
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Is that economically viable now? Can FB survive on that sort of adverts?
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Excactly, Amazon could have been profitable
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TV, and film opportunities are certainly better in USA than UK.
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Ireland also benefits from lots of highly paid, highly skilled employees, which it can tax, and also people are happy because there are jobs and oppertunities in Ireland. Many of the big name US tech companies in Ireland employee thousands
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> Parents do not want to antagonise the school and/or put their child at some kind of disadvantage, so they sign. Is that still "freely given"? That's a good point, and there might be a court case about that. I agre
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> Ad-supported websites are probably the most common case here, even if the sites don't store any data themselves. Internet advertising is a viper pit of privacy invasion. They didn't get their house in order, and let it tur
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Under the GPDR, you can't "sign away" your rights. You always have the right to cancel any "contract"/"agreement" like that.
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Under the GDPR, consent must be revokable, at any time, and as easy to withdraw consent as to give it. So you could sign that. Then 5 minutes later withdraw consent. Additionally consent must be "freely given". If you would be p
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> based on the whims of politics and the regulators Political whims? Maybe in the USA judges and prosecutors and police cheifs are elected every few years and these things are political and can change, but this isn't the case in m
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FTR Rust's types (like u64) have several methods for different types of multiplication if you want: checked, saturating, wrapping, overflowing https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u64.html#method.chec...
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> Maybe that law should've included a clause about how you shouldn't lie about why you're using third-party cookies? In theory the GDPR/EU Data Protection law covers that. If people consent to one thing, then they
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A similar thing happens to voice recognition systems trained on American English. There are lots of videos of frustrated Scottish, or northern England people not being understood.

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